‘There’s a lot of shame attached to mental illness. You feel like something’s wrong with you.

‘And in my life you go look at all these beautiful and wonderful things that I have and I should be so happy. But you can’t help it if that in the morning you wake up, you are so tired, you are so sad, you are so full of anxiety and the shakes that you can barely think.

‘So from an emotional side, I was like “right, don’t ever let your emotions be part of anything”.

‘So I was a typical 20, 25, 28-year-old running around going ‘life is great’, or ‘life is fine’ and that was exactly it.

Prince Harry revealed he nearly had a ‘breakdown’ after his mother’s death (Picture: Getty)

‘And then (I) started to have a few conversations and actually all of a sudden, all of this grief that I have never processed started to come to the forefront and I was like, there is actually a lot of stuff here that I need to deal with.’

He said he shut down his emotions after her death which had ‘a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well’.